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• Whoydensday: Mid-season Series 5 – whaddayareckon?

  By tigtog on 2010-06-02 • ( 8 )

  NB: Here in the Antipodes we have just seen S5:Ep07 Amy’s Choice – please be spoiler aware for episodes beyond this!

• Femmostroppo Reader – June 1, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-06-02

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Crap that irritates me about kinky bloggers. – “Anyways, I’ve been trying to read more anti-sexist… Read More ›

• Tuesday twaddle: Caption this

  By tigtog on 2010-06-01 • ( 6 )

  A grey squirrel warns off a pigeon who was trying to steal his nuts in a back garden in the Queens Park area of Brighton

• MSM finally catches up on the Israeli blockade of Gaza

  By tigtog on 2010-06-01 • ( 1 )

  Anyone in Israel who thought that stopping this flotilla would starve the gesture of publicity made a woeful miscalculation once they opened fire on the high seas, not even in their own territorial waters, on humanitarian demonstrators. They claim self defence (5 out of 6 boats were seized peacefully, one wasn’t) but as Christine Keeler might say – they would, wouldn’t they?

• Eurovision Final Live Chat

  By tigtog on 2010-05-30 • ( 8 )

  It’s been ages since we last livechatted! Today at the Hoydenfest I was asked if I could set it up for all those who love themselves some kitsch and bling every year on SBS, so here we are. The show starts at 7:30pm on SBS Australian Eastern Standard Time, and the chat widget below should go live at 7:15pm.

• BabyBerry vs iPad

  By tigtog on 2010-05-28

  Looking for the ultimate gadget? BBC Animation from Mitchell and Webb:

• Femmostroppo Reader – May 28, 2010 #feminismfriday

  By tigtog on 2010-05-28 • ( 8 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. What will Twitter will make of a #feminismfriday hashtag? – Lets have a #feminismfriday Twittersalon! (If… Read More ›

• Repellent rape apologists

  By tigtog on 2010-05-27 • ( 4 )

  TRIGGER WARNING.
  revisiting what is apparently an old argument of his: that clear cut cases of rape and sexual enslavement of women allegedly ordered by God in the early books of the Bible might just not “really” be “rape”

• Femmostroppo Reader – May 26, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-05-26 • ( 2 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Know Where Your #TowelDay Is – Interview With Stephen Fry – Sooooo jealous. Kelly Osbourne: better… Read More ›

• ObDefinition: Grepping Loon

  By tigtog on 2010-05-25 • ( 20 )

  A grepping loon is someone who searches out particular terms on the Internet for the purpose of cutting and pasting a prepared rant or disingenuous misrepresentation of a topic rather than engaging in substantive discussion of the topic.